With immediate access to the region’s motorway network from Junction 8 of the M62, it’s unrivalled location has already proved attractive to Brakes Bros, Hermes Parcelnet, Travis Perkins and Asda, all of whom have chosen the site for new regional logistics centres.

Emley Moor transmitting station, or the Arqiva Tower, is a telecommunications and broadcasting facility on Emley Moor, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Emley, in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It was built between 1969 and 1971. The station’s most visible feature is its 1,084-foot (330.4 m) tall concrete tower, which is a Grade II listed building. It is the tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom, 7th tallest freestanding structure in the European Union, 4th tallest tower in the European Union, and 23rd tallest tower in the world.

The tower’s official name “Arqiva Tower” is shown on a sign beside the offices at the base of the tower but it is commonly known as “Emley Moor mast”. Emley Moor position as a building or a structure is ambiguous. The tower has a top-floor interior control room at a height of 272 metres which is accessible to people.

There were two towers on the site previously. The first was built in 1956. It was replaced with a 385m tall one in 1964. Unfortunately this collapsed in March 1969. You can read more about this here.

Junctions 1 to 4 were never built. Apparently the motorway was supposed to go further into Liverpool.
Junctions 12 to 18 form part of the M60 motorway (the Manchester Ring Road) and is signposted as such.

The Ouse Bridge carries the M62 between junctions 36 and 37 over the River Ouse, north of Goole.

Traffic to and from Hull to the A1 historically went over Boothferry Bridge on the A614.

The position of the bridge and the M62 resulted from a study carried out in 1964 by Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners. They would also design the bridge. It is a haunched girder bridge.

In the early stages an immersed tube tunnel was considered, which was thought to be too expensive. 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) of the River Ouse had to be bridged. The gradient of the road on the approach to the bridge is 1 in 33.

The Ouse Bridge Contract for £6.75 million (£71 million in today’s figures) was awarded in January 1973 to a consortium of Costain Civil Engineering and Redpath Dorman Long.

It was opened on 24 May 1976. It was the last section of the main part of the M62 to open.